Michael Minella
Director - OSS Spring R&D at Broadcom Software
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Minella is a seasoned software leader and author with over two decades of experience driving Spring ecosystem development and open-source strategy. As Director of OSS Spring R&D at Broadcom Software and former senior leader at VMware/Pivotal, he has led flagship projects such as Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task and served on the JSR-352 expert group. A Java Champion and international conference speaker, he combines deep Java expertise with practical product leadership, shipping secure, production-grade frameworks like Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. His open-source contributions show a meticulous focus on reliability and security—modernizing many high-profile repos to use HTTPS and improving documentation and test stability across projects like spring-boot, spring-cloud-gateway, and RabbitMQ. He’s also an author of The Definitive Guide to Spring Batch and brings a curious, security-minded perspective outside work (podcasting on OffHeap and a personal interest in InfoSec). Based in Naperville, he balances a technical career with creative hobbies in photography and woodworking, and family life as husband and father.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science E-Commerce Technology, Master of Science E-Commerce Technology at DePaul UniversityAssociates of Science Computer Information Systems, Associates of Science Computer Information Systems at College of DuPageBacholer Computer Science, Bacholer Computer Science at Northern Illinois University
Github Skills (36)
application-framework10
api-rest10
messaging10
spring10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
app-framework10
http10
microservices-application10
java10
rabbitmq10
javas10
manage10
aws10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
spring-attic/spring-cloud-aws
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
All development has moved to https://github.com/awspring/spring-cloud-aws Integration for Amazon Web Services APIs with Spring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 39 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions focus on enhancing the robustness of the application by addressing URL inconsistencies and improving the reliability of the system's infrastructure. The user's primary contribution involves updating URLs within the codebase to utilize the HTTPS protocol. This change involved the modification of several files, including auto-configuration files, test files and deployment scripts. The user also addressed issues with URLs that could not be automatically fixed and updated license URLs.
aws-cloudformationaws-cloudspring-cloud-awsawsaws-integration
rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
RabbitMQ Java client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 157 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the codebase by updating URLs to use the HTTPS protocol. They fixed various URLs within the project's files and ensured that the changes were successful. Additionally, the user addressed the migration of existing HTTP URLs to their corresponding HTTPS equivalents, and also updated relevant files in the project by correcting URLs.
javarabbitmq-javarabbitmqjava-client
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